Letter from Ralph Waldo Emerson to Unknown

by: Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882

Publication date: 1837-12-18

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Topics: Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882, Correspondence, Abernethy Manuscripts Collection

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Language: english-handwritten

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Transcriber: Joseph Watson (ed.)
Todd Sturtevant
Virginia Faust

Transcription

Concord, 18 Dec. 1837.


My dear Sir,
        I received your note
last week in the hurry of a belated
preparation for a lecture in Boston
& designed to answer it immediately on
my return. Friday & Saturday it entirely
slipped my memory.
        I accepted once last year
on Mr Ware's urgent request the prop-
osition that I with others should speak
on some part of the Peace question. But
as I was never called I made no
preparation. I am now entirely occupied
until the end of February. If the
Course proposed to be given by the Peace
Society should reach into March, I
would try to say what I can in one Lecture


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But I can promise nothing earlier.
With great respect,
        Your friend & servant
                R. W. Emerson




[written sideways on right side]
RW Emerson Letter
Dec 18. 1837
accepted conditionally